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THE US
Breeders’ Cup, the richest two-day racing extravaganza
in the whole world, ended up not with a big bang but
left a big mark in the whole racing world.
The
rains washed away the aspirations of the organizers to
make it the biggest in terms of wagering and attendance,
but it nevertheless gave the racing aficionados
worldwide the excitement in seeing the best performers
in recent years.
I was so
disappointed not having seen the live feed of the said
major races in our local channels and so with the
thousand of local racing fans. I do hope to see them all
in one piece one of these days. One good consolation was
that my favorite horse, Curlin, won the featured Classic
event. This horse was a favorite of mine even before he
placed third to Street Sense in this year’s Kentucky
Derby and developed into a champion horse in so short a
time.
Anyway,
for those who have called and e-mailed us for the past
few days and inquiring about the complete lineup of
results we have sorted them out here. I hope you have
read the whole story which we printed here early this
week.
CLASSIC
($5 million in prizes/three-year olds and up/distance of
1-1/4 miles): Champion–CURLIN–ridden by Robby Albarado;
2–Hard Spun; 3–Awesome Gem; 4–Street Sense; 5–Tiago;
6–Any Given Saturday; 7–Lawyer Ron; 8–Diamond Stripes;
DNF–George Washington
TURF ($3
million/1-1/2 miles on Turf): 1–ENGLISH CHANNEL; 2–Shamdinan;
3–Red Rocks; 4–Better Talk Now; 5–Dylan Thomas; 6–Grand
Couterier; 7–Fri Guy; 8–Transduction Gold
DISTAFF
($2 million/1-1/8 miles): 1–GINGER PUNCH; 2–Hystericalady;
3–Octave; 4–Lady Joanne; 5–Unbridle Belle; 6–Balance;
7–Tough Tiz’s Sis; 8–Bear Now; 9–Indian Vale; 10. Lear’s
Princess; 11–Teammate; 12–Prop Me Up
MILE ($2
million/1 mile Turf): 1–KIP DEVILLE; 2–Excellent Art;
3–Cosmonaut; 4–Nobiz Like Showbiz; 5–Host; 6– Trippi’s
Storm; 7–Remarkable News; 8–Rebellion; 9. Icy Atlantic;
10. Jeremy; 11–Purim; 12–Silent Name; 13–My Typhoon;
Scratched–After Market
SPRINT
($2 million/6 Furlongs): 1–MIDNIGHT LUTE; 2–Idiot Proof;
3–Talent Search; 4–Benny The Bull; 5–Kelly’s Landing; 6–Bordonaro;
7–Commentator. 8–Greg’s Gold; 9–Smokey Stover;
10–Forefathers; Scratched–Attila’s Storm
FILLY &
MARE TURF ($2 million/1-3/8 miles Turf): 1–LAHUDOOD;
2–Honey Ryder; 3–Passage of Time; 4–Nashoba’s Key; 5–All
My Loving; 6–Timarwa; 7–Arravale; 8–Precious Kitten; 9.
Argentina; DNF–Danzon; Scratched–Wait A While
JUVENILE
($2 million/1-1/16 miles): 1–WAR PASS; 2–Pyro; 3–Kodiak
Kowboy; 4–Tale Of Ekati; 5–Z Humor; 6–Old Man Buck;
7–Overextended; 8–Shore Do; 9–Salute The Sarge; 10.
Wicked Style; 11–Globalization; Scratched–Dixie Chatter,
Slew’s Tiznow
JUVENILE
FILLIES ($2 million/1-1/16 miles): 1–INDIAN BLESSING;
2–Proud Spell; 3–Backseat Rhythm; 4–Tasha’s Miracle;
5–Smarty Deb; 6 – Clearly Foxy; 7–Grace Anatomy; 8–Zee
Zee;
9. A
TO The Croft; 10–Izarra; 11–Set Play; 12–Irish Smoke;
13–Phantom Income; Scratched–Cry And Catch Me
MILE ($1
million/1-mile): 1–CORINTHIAN; 2–Gottcha Gold;
3–Discreet Cat; 4–Wanderin Boy; 5–Lewis Michael; 6–Xchanger;
7–Park Avenue Ball; 8–High Finance
JUVENILE
TURF ($1 million/1 mile Turf): 1–NOWNOWNOW; 2–Achill
Island; 3/ Cannonball; 4–Strike The Deal; 5–Domestic
Fund; 6–Texas Fever; 7–The Leopard; 8–Gio Ponti; 9. Your
Round; 10. Prussian; 11–Cherokee Triangle. 12–Preachin
Man
FILLY &
MARE ($1 million/6 Furlongs): 1–MARYFIELD; 2–Miraculous
Miss; 3–Miss Macy Sue; 4–Baroness Thatcher. 5–Dream
Ruth; 6–La Traviata; 7–Shaggy Mane; 8–Oprah Winney; 9.
Wild Game. 10. Jazzy
Here are
the top performers in the jockeys’ division for the
period between January to September of this year.
1 DILEMA
PR (earnings) P37,838,300.58, (no. of rides) 626;
2
HERNANDEZ JB–P37,275,627.66–572; 3 GUCE JB–P26,170,074.71–660
4 BORBE
DH JR–P21,207,547.05–469; 5 ALCASID AB
JR–P18,429,748.88–335
6 GUCE
JA–P17,973,163.10–500; 7 RAQUEL FM
JR–P16,944,441.88–361; 8 CORDERO JB–P14,694,368.46–418;
9 TINTE JG–P14,692,170.74–378; 10 TOLENTINO
EC–P13,932,792.50–375
11 GUCE
JP A–P12,072,172.09–280; 12 REYES EG–P11,833,376.75 –
353
13
TAMANO CB–P11,827,309.42–281; 14 ABOBO
KB–P11,076,677.79–287
15
FERNANDEZ RG–P10,560,971.74–407
16
HIPOLITO RK–P10,337,145.30–378; 17 BALBOA
LD–P9,560,559.48–190
18
MALAPIRA KE–P9,382,420.70–287; 19 LUMAGUI
AL–P9,094,670.37–287; 20 GUCE JA A–P7,857,339.23–157
21
FRANCISCO GL–P7,682,684.71– 211; 22 LADIANA JM–P7,280,189.54
– 148 23 DAQUIS MF–P6,885,242.17–185; 24 DILEMA VAL
R–P6,752,663.24–143; 25 CALINGASAN NK–P6,624,538.79–219
Official
figures released by the Philippine Racing Commission. |
